"For we desire that men should learn and perceive how severe a thing the true inquisition of Nature is, and should accustom themselves, by the light of particulars, to enlarge their minds to the amplitude of the world, and not reduce the world to the narrowness of their minds."

LORD BACON.

D

STUDIES

IN

NATURAL HISTORY;

EXHIBITING

A POPULAR VIEW

OF

THE MOST STRIKING AND INTERESTING OBJECTS OF THE

MATERIAL WORLD.

Illustrated by Ten Engravings.

BY WILLIAM RHIND,

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL AND ROYAL PHYSICAL
SOCIETIES OF EDINBURGH.

EDINBURGH:

PUBLISHED BY

OLIVER & BOYD, TWEEDDALE-COURT;

AND

SIMPKIN & MARSHALL, LONDON.

1830.

то

HENRY BROUGHAM, ESQ.

F. R. S., M. P., &c.

WHOSE PROFOUND AND COMPREHENSIVE INTELLECT

HAS BEEN SO SUCCESSFULLY DEVOTED

TO THE

GENERAL Diffusion of USEFUL KNOWLEDGE,

THIS LITTLE WORK

IS

HUMBLY INSCRIBED

BY THE AUTHOR.